10517 on the s/s story, and finished! some thoughts on sword and sorcery…

Sword & sorcery is fun to write, and D&D pretty well killed it. The anthology I talked about, Conquering Swords: the New Sword and Sorcery, is coming out from Prometheus Press, maybe from its Pyr imprint—details as I get them, and since their deadline is July, I’ll figure they’ll be out in December or January.

How did D&D kill sword & sorcery? They decided they were going into fiction writing and did it with all-rights purchase of books by novice writers—insisting, apparently, that they use the b